Wobblies, Pile Butts, and Other Heroes

Laborlore Explorations
Author: Archie Green
Cloth – $46
978-0-252-01963-0
Publication Date
Cloth: 01/01/1993
Buy the Book Request Desk/Examination Copy Request Review Copy Request Rights or Permissions Request Alternate Format Preview

About the Book

In this culmination of his half-century of involvement with American workers and their traditions, Archie Green explores occupational expression---stories, songs, customs, beliefs, artifacts---on the job and in institutions such as trade unions.

Combining ethnographic description with analysis drawn from folklore, history, literary criticism, art history, linguistics, and philosophy, Green presents ten case studies in which he reflects on single words as social texts ("Wobbly," "fink") and clustered words within anecdotes, tales and ballads.

About the Author

Archie Green (1917–2009) was the author of Calf’s Head and Union Tale: Labor Yarns at Work and Play and many other books.

Also by this author


Tin Men cover